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Stir fried chopped beef with Spicy Hunan Pickled Vegetables, Shaoxing and Soy Sauce over rice.

One of the nicest desserts I was ever served was in a tiny restaurant near Perpignan. SW France. It was simple peeled green grapes floating in straight Pernod. Anise is a spice, innit?

My mother, who was a girl during WWII but did have easy access to butter, switched to margarine after the war when it was marketed as some sort of luxury food! To this day she still uses it, applied to her toast or bread about half an inch thick! When I stayed with her recently, the first thing I did was buy some butter for my needs. Still, she has just turned 90 and is fit and well. It must be all the preservatives!

Chicken and Shimeji Mushroom Fried Noodles Chicken (obviously), fresh brown shimeji, Shaoxing, garlic, chilli, soy sauce, coriander leaf and Chinese chives.

There are some restaurants where I am definitely remembered by the staff, but not for the reasons I guess you are talking about!

Smuggled snackery! Hummus and pita.

Half of those aren't e-book formats and it doesn't include EPUB, the most.common format.

It was the issue you raised.

For example?

Wouldn't it be better to share them? Other people may have the same problem.

Prawn Massaman Curry with Rice.

王中王大芒果 King of Kings Large Mangoes Someone was having fun in the mango department this morning.

What format is it in? Kindle requires MOBI format. It won't read anything else. Many e-books are published in EPUB format. These can be converted using the free download program Calibre. Calibre is also a very useful tool for uploading and organising e-books on your device.

My Kindle has hundreds of books on it and I've never bought anything from Amazon.

Stornoway black pudding* with poached duck egg. * Possibly the only such specimen in China. Hand smuggled from Scotland by yours truly.

It's usually added to soups, hot pots, or some soupy noodle dishes.

Surely they mean of the 33.1% cocoa, 34.6% is cocoa butter.

Chicken and shiitake jiaozi in spicy chicken broth with wilted lettuce.

小笼包 Xiao long bao

I prefer too well done. Too well done is well done!

I've been to Stornoway a dozen times in the past (not recently) and never come across any such thing. Your trip was 50 years ago! Things have changed. Its most famous export is surely its black pudding. Even my Frenchish mother associates the place with BP and prefers it to the boudin noir she was brought up on.

"Everything" doesn't say that at all, as your link proves.

First meal I've cooked in three weeks. I'm still jet-lagged, so cooked something I can do in my sleep. Spicy lemon pork with coriander seed. Tomato, onion, basil salad. Rice.

So, she's “just saying“ she hasn't a clue where the name comes from.